Build system idea

> Simon PJ and I had a talk about the build system earlier today, I thought
> I'd float the idea we discussed...
> I propose we do this:
>
> - Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as
> part of the GHC build system. Rather than generating a Makefile
> complete with build rules, we generate a Makefile that just
> has the package-specific metadata (list of modules, etc.), and put
> the code to actually build the package in the GHC build system.
>
> This means we still get to use 'make', we still get to use the .cabal files
> as metadata, but the build system is more private to GHC, more extensible,
> and hopefully more understandable and modifiable...
>
> ... I'm interested in whether anyone thinks this idea is worth
> persuing, or whether there are better alternatives.
Simon,
This direction sounds very promising. I hope you will keep us posted.
Norman